Douglas E. Ray
Dean of the College of Law
Course Information - Spring 2010
Office: LC 2000C
Campus Phone: 419.530.2379
Fax Number: 419.530.4526
Email: Douglas.Ray@utoledo.edu
Secretary: Shirley Baker; 419.530.7877
Douglas E. Ray is Dean and Professor of Law. Before joining the Toledo faculty, he served as Dean of the Widener University School of Law and Vice President of Widener University from January 1999 until June 2005. Prior to that Deanship, he taught at The University of Toledo College of Law where he served as Charles W. Fornoff Professor of Law and Values and also as an associate dean.
A graduate of the University of Minnesota and the Harvard Law School, Dean Ray has served as an economist with the U.S. Department of Labor, a labor attorney with Dorsey & Whitney in Minneapolis and a professor at the University of Richmond Law School. He is a veteran of the United States Army.
Dean Ray has been active in professional and civic organizations, including state and local bar associations and the Association of American Law Schools, for which he served as chair of the Labor and Employment Section.
Dean Ray is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators and has been a frequent speaker on national programs concerning labor and employment law. He has appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal and has given the Keynote Address at the Federal Administrative Law Judges Conference.
Since 1999, Dean Ray has chaired the annual four-day Course in Labor Law and Labor Arbitration sponsored by the Center for American and International Law (formerly the Southwestern Legal Foundation) in Plano, Texas.
Dean Ray has taught and published in the fields of labor law, employment discrimination law, torts and labor arbitration. He is co-author of two labor law treatises and over twenty law journal articles.
